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Blue Note 2: The Album Cover Art
by AAJ Staff
edited by Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham Chronicle Books (1998) ISBN 0-8118-1853-5 Everything about the Blue Note label in the late 1950s and early 1960s bespoke cool. Musicians such as Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley and Jackie McLean cut their best works there, creating the gospel / blues / bebop hybrid ...
Looking for Chet Baker
by Bob Jacobson
Looking for Chet Baker Bill Moody Walker & Co ISBN: 0802733689 Jazz pianist Evan Horne is at it again. An ex-girlfriend says it best: “You and dead jazz musicians. Just can't resist, huh?" From the title it's obvious whose death Horne is investigating this time. In the past ...
Jazz Baby
by Bob Jacobson
Jazz Baby Carole Boston Weatherford & Laura Freeman Lee & Low Books ISBN: 1584300396 April has been designated Jazz Appreciation Month. John Edward Hasse, the Smithsonian's curator of American music, has said that “Every April I'd love to see the country riff, swing, boogie and bop ...
Fakebook: Getting to the Heart of Art
by R.J. DeLuke
Fakebook Richard Terrill Limelight Editions ISBN: 087930619X Art, by its very nature, affects different people in different ways. But the common thread is that, when it’s right, art gets beneath the surface into the soul in some way.To fans of jazz, the music is more than ...
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
by Victor L. Schermer
Strange Fruit David Margolick Running Press 144pp. Photos 0195100832 This is a book about a song. The song is “Strange Fruit," with a haunting melody and an earth shattering lyric about the abhorrent and horribly common Southern lynchings of African Americans which stand as an ugly symbol of ...
Notes And Tones: Musician To Musician Interviews
by Larry Koenigsberg
by Art Taylor Da Capo Press (1993) This slightly expanded edition of Taylor's 1982 publication of these striking interviews with jazz musicians known to both millions or only to their colleagues and fans, provides unusual insight into the techniques, attitudes, preoccupations and personal histories of some extraordinary personalities. Taylor, a percussionist held in the ...
Jazz Lives: 100 Portraits in Jazz
by Joel Roberts
by Gene Lees; photographs by John Reeves Stewart House (1994) ISBN 1-895246-30-X Most books of jazz photography focus on the jazz musician as performer, seeking to capture the artist in the midst of creative exploration, preferably in a dark, suitably atmospheric nightclub. Jazz Lives takes a different, more contemplative approach, offering intimate ...
The Face of Black Music
by Larry Koenigsberg
by Valerie Wilmer Da Capo Press (New York, 1976) Wilmer is both a photographer and a journalist, the author of a sympathetic study of free jazz, “As Serious As Your Life." In “The Face of Black Music" the emphasis is less on jazz than on the range of African-American musics from the blues and ...
Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography
by Larry Koenigsberg
by Stan Britt Da Capo Press (New York, 1989) Although there's plenty of fascinating material in this show-biz biography of the great master of bebop tenor saxophone, it's so permeated with gush and hyperbole that it requires some tolerance to sift through it for Gordon's story. The details are there, though, from his upbringing ...
The Bear Comes Home
by Bob Jacobson
by Rafi Zabor W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393040372 Okay, the concept of a talking bear is nothing new. In fact we've had plenty of them - Pooh, Baloo, Smokey, Fozzie, Yogi. But while Yogi may have been “smarter than the average bear", the hero of Rafi Zabor's novel is actually smarter ...
